Since I like Petroglyphs and pictographs so much, I had to break my Fremont Indian State Park visit into 2 blogs.
The blanket pictograph below is about 16 feet wide and 4 feet high. It is across the interstate from the park, but they have a spotting scope on one of the trails for it.
Below is a picture from the park, across the interstate and you can just make out the blanket pictograph. I circled it in red. I started thinking about the traffic on I-70. I am guessing most don’t have any idea what they are passing.
I walked the Canyon of Life trail 3 times. I saw several petroglyphs, but I could not find the Marao Panel that was described in the publications. Even though I knew the general area from the publication and I found what I thought was the trail people used to look at it, I could not find it. After walking it a couple of times I asked at the visitor center, but the person I talked to didn’t know where it was. I also looked online, but could not find anything that helped. On my last day there I was determined to find it and I did!!
Spoiler alert, if the hunt is part of the fun don’t look at the rest of this post as I am going to give away the secret!! I enjoyed searching for them so seriously skip the rest of this post if you enjoy finding them yourself.
The panel was much higher than I expected, so look up. The picture above is the cliff the panel is on, I circled in red where it is. Below is the panel.
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